On 10/12/2012 1:09 PM, Justin Vore wrote: > HELP! > > I have installed sendmail, dovecot, and squirrel mail. The squirrel > mail portion of it works just fine, but I would like to have Mozilla > Thunderbird as a client. Whenever I try and connect to the server it > says "Thunderbird failed to find the settings for your email account." > We do have an MX record in DNS pointing to our server. We are using > Ubuntu 12.0.4.1, and have Dovecot 2.2.6 sendmail version 8.14.4-2ubuntu2 > We are doing this for a class project and it is due by Tuesday 10/16/2012.. > > > Thanks, > > > Justin >
I have found Thunderbird's automatic setting detection mechanism to be rather unreliable. Try entering the settings manually. -Ben
